Encapsulate Your Own Potassium Iodate

[GrizzlyGuy]

Interesting, from SurvivalBlog.com:

With several Japanese reactors threatening to meltdown, knowing that I am downwind and would have less than a few days' notice, I quickly did some research on how to protect my family. The choices for thyroid protection (apparently the most common disease) are either Potassium Iodate (KIO3) or Potassium Iodide (KI).

I found an old SurvivalBlog article that showed that KIO3 has advantages to KI. So I placed an order for enough pills to cover our family, plus extras to give away. But while doing some additional research I happened upon the bulk form of KIO3 at PureBulk.com. I then found an article describing the process of capping your own supplements from powder...

Another good article over on SurvivalBlog: How To Prepare for Radiation Emergencies

[crs1]

Sold out, everyone's sold out of the bulk powders...

[joefreas]

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/ProductDetail.do?lang=en&N4=215929|SIAL&N5=SEARCH_CONCAT_PNO|BRAND_KEY&F=SPECi

I work at a lab and have a sigma account. If they wont sell it to the public let me know and we may be able to work somthing out.

[problemchild]

This part needs to be read......

"Fallout coming here from nuke use in Iran, Pakistan, India, Mid-East, Korea, Taiwan, China, Russia, Japan, etc.

The best documented case for concern in the USA of having overseas radioactive fallout raining down on us here, too, via prevailing westerly trade winds, with plenty of thyroid contaminating radioactive iodine, can be found in the Nuclear War Survival Skills book. This Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a Facility of the U.S. Department of Energy, Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition, details the above and shows where a single, and very small, above ground Chinese nuclear test explosion ("a few hundred kilotons") on December 28, 1966 resulted in the fallout cloud covering most of the United States. (See map 'B' above.)

Cresson H. Kearny, the author of the NWSS book, also states about this now declassified incident:

"It produced fallout that by January 1, 1967 resulted in the fallout cloud covering most of the United States. This one Chinese explosion produced about 15 million curies of iodine- 131 - roughly the same amount as the total release of iodine- 131 into the atmosphere from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster."

"Fallout from the approximately 300 kiloton Chinese test explosion shown in Fig. 1 (Map 'B' above) caused milk from cows that fed on pastures near Oak Ridge, Tennessee and elsewhere to be contaminated with radioiodine, although not with enough to be hazardous to health."

"However, this milk contamination (up to 900 picocuries of radioactive iodine per liter) and the measured dose rates from the gamma rays emitted from fallout particles deposited in different parts of the United States indicate that trans-Pacific fallout from even an overseas nuclear war in which "only" two or three hundred megatons would be exploded could result in tens of thousands of unprepared Americans suffering thyroid injury."

[WokMaster1]

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/...ND_KEY&F=SPECi

I work at a lab and have a sigma account. If they wont sell it to the public let me know and we may be able to work somthing out.

Just ordered some. They will have to "clear me" before processing.

[joefreas]

Just ordered some. They will have to "clear me" before processing.

They are usually pretty quick. I had to order some class 1 controlled substances for research and they contacted me with what I needed to do the next day. In all, my stuff was delivered shortly thereafter.

Be sure to let us know how it works out.

[Fot]

If you buy it in bulk how much are you supposed to give children ? Anybody have a chart?